why is blender 2.47 so slow?

[mahela007]

@Mr.KEWL

I second that…although…my hardware is no way near to urs…I m on P3:D…windows xp sp3…Blender 2.45 worked fine…but with recent versions the selections seem to be a real pain…as the number of vertices increases, there seems to be more and more latency in selecting the vertices…I cannot select the vertices with the same speed…

I experience the very same problem. My specs are quite similar to yours.
P4
Win XP sp3
512 RAM.

I’ll try contacting the blender support forums about this issue